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Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection
"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago ...
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Can Robots Replace Michelangelo?
The master searched Carrara for months to ... a warehouse and traditional workshop with shelves stuffed with marble funerary sculptures and crucifixes; lining the edges of the floor were decades ...
It’s among the largest collections of Michelangelo sculptures ever shown. But there’s a catch
The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed works made by ...
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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
A sprawling estate on the outskirts of Rome, it included an art collection ... the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death.
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Inside Italy's Carrara marble mountains worth $1 billion
Carrara marble is one of the ... "When you make a sculpture some materials can flake apart, whereas this one is pretty homogeneous," master sculptor Franco Cervietti told INSIDER.